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This year, Mental Health Awareness Week has a theme of Body Image - how we think and feel about our bodies.

Edinburgh Community Voices, LEARN and REH Patients Council are hosting a collective advocacy event bringing in-patients, service users, survivors and people with lived experience and mental health health professionals together to discuss: how can people who experience poor mental health ensure that their rights are recognised, respected and realised in relation to their bodies and the processes of care, treatment and recovery.

The United Nations’s Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities has brought the human rights of people with mental health issues to the fore and there is growing recognition given to people’s rights, wills and preferences. There is increasing discussion about supported decision-making and non-discrimination and equal treatment before the law and we want you to be part of the conversation.

Numbers for this event are limited so please book to ensure your place; if you cannot use Eventbrite to book for any reason, please contact REH Patients Council at their Royal Edinburgh Hospital office in person, by email at info@rehpatientscouncil.org.uk or call 0131 537 6462

The event will begin with registration and a light sandwich lunch; please let us know if you have any dietary requirements by 12 noon on Wednesday 8 May

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speakers at the event are

Michelle Howieson from the Lothian Bipolar Group

Mhairi Snowden from Human Rights Consortium Scotland

you will be able to choose to join one of six facilitated table conversations with a focus on

medication, weight-gain and side effects that affect your body image

mental health and sexuality

eating disorders and self-image

mental health and self-harm )

mental health, self-medication and self-modification

"it's all in your head": the issues of "diagnostic overshadowing"

Issues you may want to think about if you have your own lived experience of mental health issues

how does a human rights perspective help us make sense of these experiences?

are there ways we can exercise our rights with respect to our physical health and wellbeing as well as more generally improve our human rights as people with lived experience of mental health issues?

Issues you may want to think aboutif you work in mental health services

what do you need to know about the rights of people you work with?

how you can promote human rights in your workplace

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How can I contact the organiser with any questions?

please email either info@rehpatientscouncil.org.uk or collectiveadvocacy@advocard.org.uk or call the Patients Council on 0131 537 6462

The Hive
Royal Edinburgh Hospital
Morningside Place
EH10 5HF Edinburgh
United Kingdom

Wednesday, 15 May 2019 from 13:00 to 16:30 (BST)

Organiser

This event is hosted by Edinburgh Community Voices (AdvoCard) | Royal Edinburgh Hospital Patients Council and Lothian Education and Recovery Network (CAPS), the organisations that provide collective advocacy for people with mental health issues in Edinburgh and Lothian.

This event is also supported by the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership/Thrive Edinburgh, the Scottish Independent Advocacy Alliance, the Human Rights Consortium Scotland, the Lothian Bipolar Group, REH Chaplaincy and SAMH